State sneers that Curley shutdown is school's own fault, but will be gracious and not totally screw kids by forcing them to make up all the closure days with extra in-school classes

WBZ reports authorities acquisition Secretary Jeffrey Riley has ruled that students astatine the Curley School successful Jamaica Plain volition person to marque up 3 days of in-class learning due to the fact that schoolhouse and Boston officials decided to adjacent the schoolhouse to combat a Covid-19 outbreak without getting last support from the state.

BPS had asked the authorities to fto it number 7 days of online learning towards the 180 days minimum of schoolroom learning that the authorities requires erstwhile it unopen the Curley connected Tuesday for a full of 10 days, sending students location with Chromebooks to power to online classes.

Riley dismissed what BPS officials said was an urgent request to unopen the full schoolhouse down this week, saying that possibly if BPS had listened to authorities officials, it could person nipped the occupation successful the bud by "quarantining idiosyncratic classrooms oregon people levels."

At a Tuesday meeting with parents, schoolhouse and metropolis wellness officials said that portion that had worked with outbreaks astatine the Manning and Orchard Gardens schools, the Curley outbreak dispersed truthful rapidly that it was affecting ample numbers of classrooms crossed the full school, leaving them small accidental but to unopen down - successful portion to effort to dampen the spread, successful portion to beef up resources for further investigating and interaction tracing,